Saturday, January 02, 2010

A Handy House Guest

Consider this an advertising resume for my next cross-country visitation trek. I am not what anyone would call a handyman. My solution to nearly all household repairs involves the use of the yellow pages. Recently, however, upon solving a niggling fix-it problem with some outside-of-the-box logic; I was humorously nominated as a superior hands-off household consultant. Which struck me as interesting because as a visiting house guest of some duration, I do become involved in what can only be described as a --- Travelin' Honey-Do List, including over the past several months:

-winterizing and wrapping a hot tub;

-rearranging a living room (and putting it all back);

-liquor and wine shopping for a holiday party of sixty;

-emptying a dozen or more litter boxes;

-assistant cat claw clipping;

-watering two vegetable patches;

-drip irrigation repair (failed attempt at)

-picking up or delivering assorted personages to train, bus & air transport hubs;